and his girlfriend Tiffany Chen turned heads at the premiere of on Monday, September 23. The acting legend, 81, and the martial arts instructor, 45, dazzled on the red carpet, as he wore a green shirt encased by a navy blue windbreaker and gray pants, and she slayed in a low-cut white dress with thin black stripes. Though De Niro and Chen — who welcomed their daughter Gia, in ApriI 2023 — tend to maintain a low profile, rarely making public appearances, the two occasionally attend events, like premieres and festivals, together.
The couple initially met on the set of the 2015 comedy , in which De Niro plays a 70-year-old intern at an e-commerce fashion startup, and Chen plays a tai-chi instructor. Robert De Niro, 81, and girlfriend, 45, hold hands during romantic premiere appearance While Gia is Chen's only child, De Niro, who has been a father for over 50 years, became a dad of seven when she was born. In an interview with published last year, the star opened up about his parenting dynamic with Chen, revealing that she is the one who handles most of the work when it comes to Gia.
"I mean, I don't do the heavy lifting," De Niro said. "I'm there, I support my girlfriend. But she does the work.
And we have help, which is so important." While he's been a parent for so long, De Niro admitted, "It doesn't get any easier." s — directed by Francis Coppola — takes place in a fictional version of the United States, in which plays a visionary architect who finds himself at odds .
